Put Your Eyes Up Here

Put Your Eyes Up Here by Kalli Dakos

I'm so worried
About my spelling test,
That I'm chewing up
My chewed-up nails,
And my pencil
Looks like it has
A bad case of the chicken pox
And should be sent
Home from school.

Ms. Roys says,
"Relax
Your uptight muscles,
And then you'll do
Just fine."

My librarian says,
"Calm down.
Then you'll
Free your thoughts
To do their best."

My principal says,
"Don't worry
Your brains away
Like sand in a windstorm,
You'll bow the test,
If you're such a wreck."

Relax?
Calm down?
Don't worry?

Now, I'm worried
About being worried
About my spelling test.